The Apono Platform significantly enhances resource visibility and discovery, empowering users to continuously monitor activity across their expanding cloud environments. This amplified visibility and additional context fuel the refinement of automated access policies within Apono. Furthermore, augmented integrations and automated access provisioning enable Apono to more effectively leverage existing tools, allowing for more agile access management of cloud resources and the escalation of privileges during security incidents.

Key Features of the Apono Platform Include:

• Continuous Discovery – Use real time discovery of cloud resources and infrastructure to maintain visibility and build dynamic access policy.
• Access Threat Detection and Response – Continuously detect anomalous and potentially malicious cloud access attempts. Quickly block and revoke access with a single click.
• Access Activity Audit – Streamline incident response and simplify compliance reporting with complete visibility into who accessed what resource when.
• Least Privilege Recommendations – Protect cloud data and resources without promising productivity with intelligent access right sizing that optimizes privileges and balances risk with business needs.
• Automated Provisioning of Time-Bound Access Privileges – Minimize approval wait times while reducing access risk with self-serve requests and automated, context-based provisioning.
• Context Integrations – Pull context from your existing toolstack to quickly escalate permissions for key personnel during incident response.

Identity continues to be the most critical threat vector for high impact cybersecurity incidents. Forrester found that identity and privileged access credentials now account for 61% of all data breaches. Additionally, the growing adoption of cloud computing has created a critical need for securing access to sensitive cloud data and resources. Apono’s Just-In-Time, Just-Enough approach to cloud privilege access offers organizations a simple, scalable solution to address this challenge without hindering business operations.

“With Apono, we’ve reduced the time it takes for our team to access essential resources, freeing up valuable time and preventing potential data breaches worth tens of millions of dollars,” said Drew O’Connor, Director of Cloud Infrastructure, Labelbox. “We are thrilled by the capabilities that Apono has enabled for our team and look forward to the innovation and security that Apono continues to deliver for our organization.”

Apono provisions access directly at the resource level, consolidating cloud policy management for the entire customer environment onto a single platform. This results in faster deployment, reduced management overhead, and significantly finer-grained control. Today’s update demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to providing the most comprehensive and advanced solution for organizations seeking to secure their cloud environments and resources while maintaining efficiency.

“We come with the message that business productivity should not come at the cost of security, nor should security come at the cost of productivity. Our clients come to us because they are tired of compromising,” said Rom Carmel, CEO & Co-Founder, Apono. “Organizations that use Apono reduce their cloud attack surface by an average of 94%. These features will help take the guesswork out of building secure policy and add an additional layer of protection against data breach.”

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Emerging Technology Influencing Cloud Storage Trends This Summer 

Artificial Intelligence 

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across industries is influencing the cloud storage trends this summer. Technologies like Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) depend on the ability to access and manipulate large datasets in the cloud, requiring large capacity, storage flexibility and great throughput. Cloud Storage solutions are therefore evolving rapidly driven by the need for better performance, security and cost-efficiency. Cloud-native and the increasing use of serverless computing in event-driven applications and microservices are also shaping the storage technology landscape. Many Businesses are adopting a hybrid and multi-cloud setups are developing strategies that offer flexibility and improve resilience, while avoiding a vendor lock-in by the large public cloud providers. – Efrain Ruh, AIOps Expert and CTO at Digitate

AI/ML is a primary driver for moving data to the cloud from its initial location, which might initially reside on-premises or another cloud resource. After moving the data, the next step is to transform it into a format that can be consumed for a particular workload. Often, the initial transformation is followed by a second or third transformation to meet security or compliance requirements.

Transformation is a euphemism for using compute resources. Generally, compute is the most expensive resource in the cloud, but that must be calculations regarding the data life cycle. For instance, it may be cheaper to retransform data again, rather than pay storage fees. It is entirely situationally dependent.

Each transformation will require an appropriate data life cycle policy to be applied to it to minimize costs. A common requirement is that the data be moved from colder to warmer storage (and back again) based on the needs of the AI/ML workload so it can be used for future training activities or additional transformations. – David Christian, Global Migration Lead at DataArt

Cloud-first Policy Adoption

Leading into the summer season, ‘cloud-first’ has become a widely-adopted rule for companies that want to compete in the data-driven economy. With data only increasing in volume, the massive cost savings afforded by the cloud make it impossible for many organizations to opt for on-premises data centers. Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule. Still, today, cloud providers offer the security, flexibility, and often even the data residency requirements needed for any company’s unique circumstances.

In today’s collaborative data environment, where data is shared between departments, team members, and even satellite organizations, an on-premises solution can’t match the scalability and efficiency of the cloud. Disparate data was once a major stumbling block. Still, the ability for data platforms to do away with siloed and connected data from wherever it is has been addressed effectively by the cloud in a way that on-premises solutions can’t. – Sharad Varshney, CEO at OvalEdge

Software-defined Storage

One technology that’s not necessarily new but is becoming increasingly important is software-defined storage. Think of it this way: You’ve got lots of data in storage—a video archive, for example—that you don’t access often. There’s always an access pattern that emerges around this kind of data. But sometimes, those patterns change depending on what type of content people need at the moment. Traditionally, archivists notice that change and manually move some of the archival data into hotter storage so people can access it faster and cheaper. Software-defined storage builds frameworks to automate that process through scripting or AI to optimize for cost and performance.  – Majed Alhajry, technology, business process, and software development leader at MASV

Security Concerns Shaping Organization Approach to Cloud Storage 

Client Misconfigurations

A significant proportion of cloud security breaches are due to client misconfigurations, which are often driven by a lack of cloud expertise. That’s why some cloud providers have moved to the shared responsibility model. This model stakes out a middle ground between cloud providers dictating everything you can and cannot do, on one hand, and leaving customers to fend for themselves on the other. Shared responsibility means cloud providers implement sensible defaults—such as strong password enforcement or ensuring new storage buckets aren’t made public by default—while allowing customers the flexibility to configure their storage to suit specific use cases. – Majed Alhajry, technology, business process, and software development leader at MASV

Cloud Governance

Cloud governance is always an important element in any enterprise cloud implementation. Using cloud-native tools, Config or SecurityHub in AWS, Defender for Cloud in Azure, and Security Command Center in GCP allows you to see the security state of all storage repositories. It reports on questions like: Is the repository encrypted? Is the repository encrypted in a cost-efficient way? Does the repository have a life-cycle policy assigned to it? Does the repository restrict access from the Internet or internally? Are the policies that allow access to the repository the least privileged? Are permanent access keypairs disallowed or severely restricted?

Finding a repository that is out of compliance will mean scheduling it for a change to meet compliance needs. Creating new, out-of-compliance repositories is generally prohibited by policy. – David Christian, Global Migration Lead at DataArt

The Role Environmental and Sustainability Plays in Cloud Storage Trends 

Optimizing Resource Use

Environmental and sustainability considerations in cloud storage often focus on optimizing resource use. Cloud providers therefore allow users to select the best type of storage and deliver technological solutions that allow them to move data to more cost-effective platforms with ease, reducing not only their carbon footprint but also costs. – Efrain Ruh, CTO / Cloud Management Professional at Digitate

Centralization of Cloud Storage

There’s a lot of greenwashing in the cloud storage space, but there is merit to some of it. For example, the centralization of cloud storage is one of its most important sustainability features: If everyone in the cloud decided to build their own data centers, the amount of space and other resources required would far exceed what they’re using in the cloud. The capacity of the cloud is also higher due to economies of scale, which means you can store more gigabytes per cubic foot, which means less need for cooling, silicon, and other resources. Some public clouds have even started using underwater data centers, which use ocean water as a cooling method and require far less power. – Majed Alhajry, technology, business process, and software development leader at MASV

Efficient Allocation of Resources

According to reports, 60% of all corporate data is currently stored in a public cloud. Cloud providers have economies of scale within their data centers that simply cannot be matched by corporate data centers. In a data center, the tendency is to leave the compute resources, bare metal, and virtual machines on 7×24 in case they might be needed to process data. In the cloud, from a customer’s point of view, when the data needs to be processed in some way, the compute is enabled, the data is processed, and the compute is turned off. From the cloud provider point-of-view, what is actually happening is the compute is reallocated to other customers, but the overall carbon footprint is reduced globally due to a more efficient allocation of resources. – David Christian, Global Migration Lead at DataArt

The Influence of Remote Work and Hybrid Work on Cloud Storage Trends

Flexible and Scaleable Storage

The shift towards remote and hybrid work models has pushed for more flexible and scalable cloud storage solutions. As teams continue to work remotely, there is a higher reliance on collaborations tools like MS Teams, Slack, Google Workplace, etc, requiring a robust cloud storage solution. Remote work often introduces security vulnerabilities, making data protection a top-level concern. Having confidential organization data being accessed from multiple locations and devices increases the risk of an attack or a breach. Effective backup and recovery capabilities are also crucial to minimize risks on a hybrid work model. –  Efrain Ruh, CTO / Cloud Management Professional at Digitate

 Expanded Geographic of Workforce

Hybrid and remote work makes cloud storage a necessity, especially if you have a geographically spread-out workforce. That geographic spread can create significant expenses for on-prem organizations that need employees to access storage from anywhere with low latency. You also can’t provision on demand with on-prem storage—you have to provision for the worst-case scenario, just in case—so companies constantly overpay for capacity they don’t usually need. The economies of scale built into cloud storage suit hybrid work models because they allow organizations to scale up and down quickly without requiring significant CapEx. – Majed Alhajry, technology, business process, and software development leader at MASV

Recent Unexpected Uses for Cloud Storage

Storage as a Service

Several use cases for cloud storage have emerged beyond traditional data storage. One example is Storage as a Service (STaaS), a solution that organizations are starting to adopt to reduce complexity and increase efficiency through a consumption-based as-a-service model with increased levels of automation. – Efrain Ruh, CTO / Cloud Management Professional at Digitate

AI Payloads and Training Data

The cloud is very well suited for AI payloads and hosting AI training data use cases, which require rapid access to data and large amounts of sequential reads. Cloud storage is well-suited, efficient, and cheap for these use cases. It gets very expensive to have a training data corpus stored on prem—those drives must be spinning all the time to provide on-demand access, even though you’re not training your model at all times. With hot storage in the cloud, you get that access on demand, and access to that data is usually free, so you’re only paying for the storage element. This applies across most industries. – Majed Alhajry, technology, business process, and software development leader at MASV

Consolidating Compute Resources

We’ve been seeing organizations that initially took a multi-cloud approach, begin to reconsider and consolidate into a single cloud. Overcoming data gravity is real, egressing data between clouds or even regions within a cloud is more expensive than originally calculated. Putting all compute resources in local proximity to data repositories has been a trend recently because it is more efficient. –  David Christian, Global Migration Lead at DataArt

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Tintri Cloud Platform: Integration of VMstore Environments
Tintri Cloud Platform enables customers to experience the benefits of a Tintri VMstore-powered managed cloud infrastructure. TCP is a full turnkey offering that provides scalability and flexibility delivering host-in-cloud as well as process-in-cloud capabilities. TCP also offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) ensuring continuity of critical workloads in the event of a disaster.

Businesses have consistently turned to Tintri for ease of use, predictable performance and stable service. SK Food Group, a custom food manufacturing company serving customers across North America, utilizes TCP allowing the company to focus on strengthening business operations, leveraging the platform’s intelligence to stay ahead of the curve.

“At SK Food Group, we’re committed to quality from start to finish. We sustained a tremendous amount of growth in a short period of time and we knew that the previous backend infrastructure wouldn’t be able to keep up with the data workloads,” said Melissa Stone, Director of IT, SK Food Group, Inc. “Tintri Cloud Platform simplified operations and reduced IT burdens, allowing us to focus on what matters most – our customers. We have been able to rely on TCP to not only help us grow and meet our business goals, but it provided us with the flexibility to do the work that we needed to do even with a minimal internal IT staff.”

TCE Virtual Platform Compliments VMstore T7000 Series in Simple Cloud Deployment
Tintri Cloud Engine decouples Tintri’s AI-powered software from the VMstore T7000 hardware platform, providing customers with the flexibility to deploy Tintri technologies outside of the private data center. TCE is purpose-built for virtualized workloads, opening the door to new levels of infrastructure efficiency in hybrid cloud ecosystems.

Running in the cloud as a container, TCE provides enhanced data protection enabling snapshots of on-prem workloads to be replicated to cloud-based storage leveraging Tintri Native Async Replication. With TCE snapshot replication, customers leverage the cost-efficiencies of cloud storage while increasing disaster recovery capabilities and ransomware protection.

With the massive influx of data and mobile workforces over the past few years, there is a critical need to implement a more flexible and interconnected IT ecosystem to manage the size and complexity of applications. TCE is designed to address this shift in the IT market and will give users a complete view into their hybrid cloud needs.

“Tintri solutions have been VM-aware since the beginning and our unique architecture is meant specifically for virtual data sets, making our solutions perfectly positioned to meet new customer challenges as data and application implementation becomes more distributed,” said Phil Trickovic, SVP of Revenue, Tintri. “The new Tintri Cloud Platform and Tintri Cloud Engine offerings are a testament to our commitment to providing customers with all of the tools they need to manage their infrastructure, no matter the size of their workloads or where they are on their hybrid cloud transformation journey.”

For more information visit the website here.

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SearchStax, announced a new offering, SearchStax Cloud Serverless, that radically simplifies the management of Apache Solr workloads in the cloud.

SearchStax Cloud Serverless delivers a fast, scalable, and cost-effective Solr Service, allowing web and product teams to build quickly and scale automatically while optimizing resource utilization.

 

In today’s landscape, search infrastructure provisioning becomes a moving target. If overprovisioned, teams pay for idle resources, but if under-provisioned, teams risk poor performance, creating an unreliable environment and greater downtime, leading to a poor user experience and high abandonment rates. SearchStax Cloud Serverless complements the SearchStax Cloud offering by providing a deployment option that optimizes cost efficiency and delivers scalable performance, by eliminating the need for capacity planning and simplifying operations while reducing overhead.

SearchStax Cloud Serverless is ideal for teams building or maintaining search-powered applications with low to medium data volume, intermittent or seasonal traffic, and long idle times for lower cost. Typically, these projects need to avoid being locked into long-term contracts or technical lock-ins. By abstracting away server, CPU, memory, and network provisioning and management, SearchStax Cloud Serverless enables web teams to focus on differentiating features and building great web experiences. Web teams can save time by going from development to staging to SLA-backed production environments without being slowed down by the planning cycles associated with infrastructure. This means faster setup time, more flexibility, and seamless autoscaling within minutes or seconds, allowing for a better development workflow and configuration management experience.

“The introduction of SearchStax Cloud Serverless delivers market-wide innovation in the category of Search Infrastructure Management – our team is proud to be able to deliver a solution that enables developers to focus on implementation of business functions, without having to worry about constantly tuning the environment to meet dynamically changing needs. A major analyst firm forecasts that 25% of cloud IaaS buyers intend to utilize serverless in the next 12 months — one of the highest rates of planned adoption compared to other adjacent cloud services. Along with SearchStax Cloud, our managed Solr offering now enables an even greater number of search use cases across more industries, and delivers the capabilities needed for any organization to scale and grow toward operational maturity faster, more securely, and within budget,” said Sameer Maggon, Founder and CEO of SearchStax.

SearchStax Cloud Serverless is generally available. For more information, go to https://www.searchstax.com/pricing/cloud/serverless-solr-service-pricing-details/.

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The need to remain competitive and cater to increased user demands has prompted a 15% jump to 37% of companies saying they plan to move business-critical applications to the cloud in 2020-21, compared to the previous year. As digital leaders build robust digital infrastructures to ensure future success, it is estimated that almost half (47%) of their IT infrastructure globally is now on the cloud, despite ongoing concerns over cloud security. These findings come from Equinix’s annual global study of the views of 2,600 IT decision-makers across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA—the Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS).

Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of cyberattacks has greatly expanded at the digital edge. Cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion with the average cost to organizations estimated to be more than half a million dollars per incident. Risk has been compounded by the large number of companies quickly shifting network capacity to cater to increasing volumes of remote worker data traffic. This has prompted a surge in cloud migration and broad implementation of cloud-based digital infrastructure as part of a hybrid infrastructure strategy.

Balancing cybersecurity concerns with cloud adoption in a digital-first world

Jennifer Cooke, Research Director, Edge Strategies, IDC, states: “Shifts in population centers, the increasing occurrence of cyberattacks, rapidly expanding data volumes and compliance needs, the creation of business ecosystems, and the transformation to digital business, have been driving the need for a new approach to digital infrastructure. These market forces are driving IT leaders to consider the best strategies and prioritize investments across the digital core, edge, and exchange of data.”

The GTTS found 70% of respondents believe migrating to the cloud is a top priority, with 80% focused on digitizing their IT infrastructure. This move is not being made lightly, with the threat of data leaks/cyberattacks as a result of increased cloud adoption being perceived as one of the biggest threats to organizations in all three regions: 52% AMER, 50% AP, 45% EMEA.

These concerns are not without merit. The Global Interconnection Index (GXI) Volume 4, a market study published by Equinix, revealed a growth in the number of user devices and cloud resources, meaning organizations have to be aware of distributed security risks such as DDoS attacks, which have grown over 270% year-over-year.

Michael Montoya, Chief Information Security Officer, Equinix, said: “Digital transformation is essential for business survival. Every company is becoming a software company and the pandemic has accelerated the need for digital transformation.” Indeed, findings from the 2021 Gartner^® Board of Directors Survey* show 69% of boards accelerated their digital business initiatives in the wake of COVID-19.

“Moving to the cloud is at the heart of this transformation. However, as our GTTS shows, many digital leaders remain nervous about this migration, with IT decision-makers highlighting fears around increased data leaks and security breaches.”

“Cyber hygiene remains vitally important in the cloud. Equinix offers a robust and interconnected platform which allows for the direct and secure exchange of data between businesses. Equinix Fabric enables connectivity to global digital business ecosystems and a myriad of cloud service providers. As a Chief Information Security Officer, I now have the assurance that my cloud deployments avoid the public internet and the associated cyber risks.”

Stacy Hayes, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Assured Data Protection, added: “Equinix and Equinix Fabric enabled us to deliver our Rubrik Cloud services over a fast, scalable and secure interconnection platform, with access to multiple hyperscaler clouds, that will not only protect our customers’ data today, but also give them much more value from their data in the future.”

Other findings of note from the Global Tech Trends Survey include:

• 80% of IT decision-makers said digitizing their IT infrastructure is a top priority, with 76% working to improve user experience.
• Almost half (48%) of respondents said they believe the threat of data leaks and cyberattacks as a result of cloud migration to be one of the biggest threats globally.
• 81% of digital leaders said they are prioritizing improving their organization’s cybersecurity—a significant increase from the 70% who said this in the 2019-20 edition of the survey.

To read more about the Global Tech Trends Survey, or download a copy, please visit: https://www.equinix.com/resources/infopapers/equinix-tech-trends-survey

About the Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey (GTTS)
The independent study, commissioned by Equinix, surveyed 2,600 IT decision-makers in diverse enterprises across the Americas (Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, U.S.), Asia-Pacific (Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore) and EMEA (Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UAE, UK). Respondents were selected for participation from Dynata’s online panel. The survey was conducted online between December 17, 2020, and January 8, 2021.

*Gartner, Press Release, Gartner Says 69% of Boards of Directors Accelerated Their Digital Business Initiatives Following COVID-19 Disruption, September 30, 2020.

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“The economic, organizational and societal impact of the pandemic will continue to serve as a catalyst for digital innovation and adoption of cloud services,” said Henrique Cecci, senior research director at Gartner. “This is especially true for use cases such as collaboration, remote work and new digital services to support a hybrid workforce.”

Cloud Ubiquity

Today, the cloud underpins most new technological disruptions, including composable business, and has proven itself during times of uncertainty with its resiliency, scalability, flexibility and speed. Hybrid, multicloud and edge environments are growing and setting the stage for new distributed cloud models. In addition, new wireless communications advances, such as 5G R16 and R17, will push cloud adoption to a new level of broader, deeper and ubiquitous usage. Use cases such as enhanced mobile banking experiences and healthcare transformation will also emerge.

As a result, global cloud adoption will continue to expand rapidly. Gartner forecasts end-user spending on public cloud services to reach $396 billion in 2021 and grow 21.7% to reach $482 billion in 2022 (see Table 1). Additionally, by 2026, Gartner predicts public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending, up from less than 17% in 2021.

Table 1. Worldwide Public Cloud Services End-User Spending Forecast (Millions of U.S. Dollars)

BPaaS = business process as a service; IaaS = infrastructure as a service; PaaS = platform as a service; SaaS = software as a service
Note: Totals may not add up due to rounding.

Source: Gartner (August 2021)

“Organizations are advancing their timelines on digital business initiatives and moving rapidly to the cloud in an effort to modernize environments, improve system reliability, support hybrid work models and address other new realities compelled by the pandemic,” said Brandon Medford, senior principal analyst at Gartner.

Regional Cloud Ecosystems

Growing geopolitical regulatory fragmentation, protectionism and industry compliance are driving the creation of new regional and vertical cloud ecosystems and data services. Companies in the financial and public sectors are looking to reduce critical lock-in and single points of failure with their cloud providers outside of their country.

Regions not able to create or sustain their own platform ecosystems will have no choice but to leverage the platforms created in other regions and resort to legislation and regulation to maintain some level of control and sovereignty. Concerns among politicians, academia and tech providers in these regions are increasing, leading to initiatives such as GAIA-X in European countries.

Sustainability and “Carbon-Intelligent” Cloud

Nearly half of the respondents in the 2021 Gartner CEO Survey believe climate change mitigation will have a significant impact on their business. Cloud providers are responding to this growing focus on sustainability by instituting more aggressive carbon-neutral corporate goals, which creates new challenges for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders.

“New sustainability requirements will be mandated over the next few years and the choice of cloud services providers may hinge on the provider’s ‘green’ initiatives,” said Cecci.

CIPS Providers’ Automated Programmable Infrastructure

Gartner expects the broad adoption of fully managed and artificial intelligence (AI)-/machine-learning (ML)-enabled cloud services from hyperscale CIPS providers. This will rapidly eliminate the operational burden of traditional I&O roles in the public cloud.

“Infrastructure is becoming programmable, and its operation is subsequently becoming automated,” said Cecci. “Modern IT infrastructure, whether deployed in the data center or consumed in the public cloud, requires less manual intervention and routine administration than its legacy equivalents.”

Gartner clients can read more in the reports “Top Four Trends Are Shaping the Future of Public Cloud” and “Forecast: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2019-2025, 2Q21 Update.”

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conferences

Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on cloud strategies and infrastructure and operations trends at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conferences taking place November 22-23 in London, December 1-2 in Tokyo, and December 6-8 in Las Vegas. Follow news and updates from these conferences on Twitter using #GartnerIO.

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Veritas Technologies, a global leader in enterprise data protection, announced support for the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud adoption within healthcare.

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“When any company transitions to the cloud, it’s vital that their product teams are testing efficiently or it will be extremely costly,” said Martin Klaus, vice president of product marketing at Tricentis. “The Tricentis continuous testing platform enables companies like Extreme to increase the scope and speed of each product release through unified management and orchestration of all testing activities as part of their DevOps process. We’re excited for the results that Extreme has achieved with Tricentis, and we look forward to continuing to help them reach their goals of full-speed Agile transformation.”

Extreme acquired Aerohive in 2019, which had already implemented Tricentis qTest. The leadership team noted the increased efficiencies within the development team immediately, which led to the company adopting qTest enterprise-wide for all product teams.

Extreme has since committed to Agile principles to deliver innovation faster and more efficiently through the usage of products like Jira. However, the company faced various challenges to adoption as their legacy test case management tool was not capable of integrating into Jira. These issues created extensive manual work of 30 minutes-plus per report per day for both engineers and managers, as well as a testing bottleneck, causing delays in release times for both products and features.

Recognizing that Jira was not built for test management, Extreme implemented Tricentis qTest and its best-in-class Jira integration capabilities to assist in reducing workloads for engineers and developers. Through Tricentis qTest, their developers have increased visibility and traceability that allows them to see the results of test runs instantly. Through this improved efficiency in the feedback loop, their team has been able to greatly reduce release times from quarterly to monthly over the course of four to six months.

“As the world continues to shift to the cloud, we need to get as many platforms working in the cloud wireless environment as quickly as possible,” noted Kevin Lin, Director of Cloud & Wireless QA at Extreme Networks. “Tricentis qTest has been a critical tool for us to be able to achieve that from both a test perspective and organizational program perspective.”

For more information on Tricentis and how organizations are accelerating toward cloud-based Agile transformation with automated testing, visit https://www.tricentis.com/customer-stories/.

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Adam talked about his role, some of the challenges businesses face today when it comes to solving for cybersecurity challenges, and also offered his advice to cybersecurity start-ups.

Adam Bolio, EVP of Cyber Risk Services, Entisys360

Digital IT News: Can you share with us a little bit about Entisys360 and its vision?

Adam: We defined our vision by examining what worked from our experience in consulting firms, cyber technology sales, and cybersecurity program delivery, and combining the best aspects of each to create an optimal client experience. We are able to deliver the client experience of a top consulting firm while remaining tactical enough in the technology to support highly-technical integrations. Our vision is to be the premiere consulting-driven, cybersecurity products and services advisor.

Digital IT News: What are some of the vertical markets that Entisys360 focuses on?

Adam: We serve most industries but have organically developed a large focus in healthcare, with finance, technology and state government also constituting a substantial share of our business. Entisys360’s brand has predominantly served the West, mainly in California and Washington, in which have a large number of health systems as well as bio-tech and life sciences clients. Our ability to serve large organizations has created a natural focus on these industries.

Digital IT News: What is your role at Entisys360?

Adam: I am the Executive Vice President of the Advyz Cyber Risk Services Division. In this role, I lead the overall strategy, delivery and go-to-market approach for our division. Our team is comprised of leaders from my network who bring different capabilities and expertise to complement one another and allow us to serve the diverse needs of our clients. Given the depth of knowledge and breadth of experience within our team, we take a highly collaborative approach to innovation. Our primary focus is always on our client, even as it relates to innovation. In that vein, our current focus is on innovating the way cybersecurity technologies are employed for our clients rather than innovating the technology itself. Innovation is embedded in our process and we consistently seek new and better ways for our clients to leverage security tools to improve their security posture.

Digital IT News: What are some of the unique capabilities that Entisys360’s Advyz Cyber Risk Services brings to the table? How does the company differentiate itself in the marketplace?

Adam: The Advyz Cyber Risk Services Division is comprised of leaders who have delivered cybersecurity services in terms of decades, not years. Our singular focus is on delivering the right solutions for each of our clients to solve their unique risk problems. As such, we remain vendor agnostic. Instead of promoting specific technologies, our team brings their depth of knowledge and experience to serve as trusted advisors to our clients. In this way, we are able to bring people, process, and technology, and act as extension of our client’s team.

Digital IT News: What are some of the common cybersecurity pain points for customers?

Adam: Data privacy and protection is a very pertinent topic recently for many reasons. One is due to the exponential daily growth in data exchanged, and the number of places inside, and outside of, the network it which it lives. Another is the increasing number of laws and regulations in response to public demand for privacy and security, which has been fueled by the misuse or failure to secure consumer data. We are providing services in the forms of privacy program assessments and development, as well as well as advisory and technical services related to data protection.

Our privacy services help clients align their business to pertinent regulations. We can also help them build out their consumer facing privacy portals, which enable customers to make decisions about their data relationship with businesses.

Our data protection offerings help clients manage and monitor data across hybrid cloud infrastructure and in the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. We can bring solutions that offer a single pane of glass view to an organization’s data, as well as automation of routine data protection activities.

Digital IT News: What advice would you give to today’s cybersecurity start-ups?

Adam: Focus on clients and their business. This will enable solutions that are achievable. I have seen so many products that fail because they don’t work in a business setting. New solutions need to be consumable, manageable and sustainable. Consumable translates to easy adoption that doesn’t require major efforts to get through an organization’s IT change management process. Manageable solutions should be cloud-hosted, with options to have maintenance functions, or more, managed. Sustainable solutions should address a point problem but have the ability to be used for a broader solution set, and have easy to use APIs that can plug and play as other IT services are introduced or retired.

Digital IT News: What are some of the areas that your organization is currently investing in?

Adam: We are investing into people and resources to be the go-to partner for cloud security and Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR). 

Cloud is where technology continues to move. Increasingly, remote workforces have expedited deterioration of the defined security perimeter. With our people and data everywhere, we need to help our clients integrate dependable security solutions across platforms in which their data travels and/or resides.

With data growing exponentially, countless connected devices being added to our networks, and ever increasing regulations, we need technologies that can reduce or eliminate the need for human intervention. This will increase what we can do, as well as let our people focus on higher function, critical tasks. Entisys360 is collaborating with some of the leading SOAR technologies to bring consulting driven solutions based on our clients’ current tools and process maturity.

About Adam Bolio EVP Cyber Risk Services, Entisys360

Adam has 22+ years of experience covering a broad range of security and project management specialties, including the design, management, execution and assessment of cyber security programs. Adam has advised and implemented cyber strategies and technologies in the national security, technology and healthcare communities. He received the Department of Homeland Security Information System Security Officer of the Year award and is a veteran of the United States Navy SEALs.​

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